{"id":530140,"date":"2010-04-16T18:44:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T22:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2010-04-16T18:44:31","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T22:44:31","slug":"ship-shortage-could-slow-wind-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/530140","title":{"rendered":"Ship Shortage Could Slow Wind Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/Port_Turbines.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8384\" title=\"Port_Turbines\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Port_Turbines.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like the rest of Europe, the UK has a Kyoto-level ambitious renewable energy plan to reduce its CO2 emissions <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/7765094.stm\" >20% below 1990 levels by 2020<\/a>. As part of achieving this, the island nation plans to build an astonishing 32 Gigawatts of off-shore wind by 2020, enough to supply a quarter of its electricity.<\/p>\n<p>However, a &#8220;lack of investment in the vessels used to build offshore wind farms could hinder Britain&#8217;s ambitions to shift to renewable energy&#8221;, E.ON UKs Robin Rigg told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electricityforum.com\/news\/apr10\/Lackofconstructionshipmayhinderwinddevelopment.html\" >Reuters.<\/a> He is the head of one of the leading companies in the consortium of  companies meeting the UK&#8217;s 32 Gigawatt target.<\/p>\n<p>It will take an armada of vessels to get the  huge parts of modern turbines out into the North Sea to deploy them in off-shore wind farms. In  today&#8217;s world, the supply chain is lacking. There are not enough ships  that can carry turbines, and building these ships will take a huge  investment.  <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/16\/ship-shortage-could-slow-wind-power\/#more-8383\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the rest of Europe, the UK has a Kyoto-level ambitious renewable energy plan to reduce its CO2 emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2020. As part of achieving this, the island nation plans to build an astonishing 32 Gigawatts of off-shore wind by 2020, enough to supply a quarter of its electricity. However, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-530140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=530140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}